Privacy and Cookies

What are “cookies”?

“Cookies” (also known as HTTP cookies, web cookies or browser cookies) are simply small pieces of data, which are stored as text files on your computer, whenever you visit certain websites. Their typical purpose is to help sites remember particular actions you may have done there in the past. For example, cookies may track when you have logged into a site, visited certain pages or clicked certain buttons.

Websites maintained by Reed Exhibitions Limited (RX) use cookies to improve your user experience. In many cases, cookies are even essential for certain features of a site.

Ensure better service delivery (Ooyala®)
You can view a full list of all cookies used by RX websites in the “What cookies do we use and why?” section below.

Are cookies harmful?

Cookies cannot harm you or your computer. They cannot contain viruses, cannot install harmful software and cannot damage your computer in any way. Although RX uses cookies to gather encrypted information to improve your user experience, this information is never personally identifiable. We do not use cookies to store any sensitive information, such as name, address or contact details.

Despite this, if you do wish to disable or remove cookies, please see the “Help” section of your browser or mobile device. Each browser or device handles the management of cookies differently, so you will need to refer to your appropriate “Help” documentation. However, as mentioned, please be aware that cookies are essential for certain features of an RX site to work properly.

Why are we telling you this?

The information provided here on the use of cookies on RX websites demonstrates our compliance with recent cookie legislation. We also want you, as a valued RX website user, to fully understand your privacy, how cookies affect you and to be entirely comfortable with your RX website experience.

We trust that this information eases any concerns you may have had about your privacy and safety with cookies. BY CONTINUING TO USE OUR WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE SUBJECT TO THE TERMS OF THIS COOKIES POLICY AND OUR USE OF COOKIES AS DISCLOSED IN THIS POLICY.

Multimedia Content

To give you a richer experience, RX sometimes embeds photos, videos, polls or similar elements hosted on 3rd party online services such as Flickr or Youtube. Therefore, you may be presented with cookies from these services when you visit an RX page containing such content. RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information.

Reed Exhibitions Sharing Tools

RX websites also use embedded ‘share’ buttons. These buttons enable users to easily share content with their friends through a number of popular social networks. When you click on one of these buttons, a cookie may be set by the service you have chosen to share content through. RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information.

Double Click

RX websites may display online advertisements. To manage these we employ a technology called Double Click. This is owned by Google and measures ad performance by setting cookies.

RX does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third party's website for more information.

What cookies do we use and why?

The following shows the full list of platform cookies, used throughout all RX websites.

Name

Owner

Duration

Purpose

__atuvc

AddThis

13 months

User visitor count.
AddThis collects information from visitors that does not directly identify an individual and is designed to identify the devices used by visitors. Visitors can easily opt out of interest based advertising facilitated by the AddThis tools at any time using the AddThis opt out http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out. More information can be found here: http://www.addthis.com/privacy

bt2

AddThis

256 days

User behavioural

loc

AddThis

90 days

Visitor location

mus

AddThis

13 months

Profile store status.

ssc

AddThis

13 months

Service share consumption

ssh

AddThis

13 months

Service share history

sshs

AddThis

13 months

Service share history

uid

AddThis

13 months

User id

um

AddThis

13 months

Partner mapping

uvc

AddThis

13 months

Visitor count

vc

AddThis

13 months

Number of views seen from user

_ceg.s

Crazy Egg

3 months

Crazy Egg – web analytics – track how visitors interact with pages on a site (performance)

_ceg.u

Crazy Egg

3 months

Crazy Egg – web analytics – track how visitors interact with pages on a site (performance)

IDE

DoubleClick

1 year

We use DoubleClick to help us monitor the performance of our online advertisements.
DoubleClick cookies contain no personally identifiable information.
Sometimes the cookie contains an additional identifier that is similar
in appearance to the cookie ID. This identifier is used to identify an
ad campaign to which a user was exposed previously; but no other data is
stored by DoubleClick in the cookie, and none of the data is personally
identifiable.

ELOQUA, ELQSTATUS

Eloqua (Oracle)

2 years each

Eloqua employs cookies in order for its server to recognize a return visitor as a unique user. The cookies placed by the Eloqua server are readable only by Eloqua, and cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on a computer. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information. We do link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on our site.

Lead Forensics represents and warrants to Customer that its technology, including but not limited to the LF Tracker, does not capture or associate the data captured with any personally identifiable information. It does track and provide only the commercial IP address captured visiting the one of Customer’s Websites, the corresponding domain and contact details of the organization registered to such IP address, and the Website visitor’s operating system and browser type and version.

.EPiServerLogin

Reed Exhibitions

Session

This cookie is set when you log into an RX website. It remembers that you are logged in, as you navigate through the site's pages.

[HOST]_trackingData

Reed Exhibitions

14 days

Similar to the campaigns.site.[THIS SITE] cookie, if you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie stores the campaign's information and reports its success to us.

campaigns.site.[THIS SITE]

Reed Exhibitions

1 hour

If you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie stores the campaign's information and reports its success to us.

novaState

Reed Exhibitions

Session

This cookie helps an RX website to remember your preferences. For example, if you view a site in a chosen language, every page within your session is then displayed in this language. As another example, if you add an exhibitor to your Show Planner, this is recorded by the cookie so that this exhibitor will be displayed in your planner, the next time you visit.

rxuk-recommended-exhibitors

Reed Exhibitions

6 months

Stores summary information on exhibitors that are recommended to a visitor

rxuk-recommended-products

Reed Exhibitions

6 months

Stores summary information on products that are recommended to a visitor

rxuk-recommended-sessions

Reed Exhibitions

6 months

Stores summary information on conference sessions that are recommended to a visitor

showcookiecompliance

Reed Exhibitions

Permanent

This cookie is set when you dismiss the "Privacy and Cookies" message, displayed at the bottom of an RX website. Once set, it ensures you will not be shown this message again.

url referrer

Reed Exhibitions

Session

If you have arrived at an RX website via one of our marketing campaigns, this cookie helps us report on the webpage from which you arrived.

When you have: Submitted a request to attend, exhibit or advertise at an RX show OR Provided your details in order to access premium content on an RX site. This cookie remembers that you have already done so and ensures that you do not have to re-submit your request or re-enter your details.

How to contact us

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